6th Grade Ancient World: Chapter 2

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  1. scribe
    someone employed to make written copies of documents
  2. city-state
    an independent nation comprised of a single town
  3. polytheism
    belief in multiple gods
  4. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  5. Sumer
    an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC
  6. Mesopotamia
    the land between the Tigris and Euphrates
  7. Fertile Crescent
    a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
  8. Tigris River
    an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River
  9. Euphrates River
    a river in southwestern Asia
  10. empire
    the domain ruled by a single authoritative sovereign
  11. caravan
    a procession traveling together in single file
  12. bazaar
    a street of small shops, especially in the Middle East
  13. epitaph
    an inscription in memory of a buried person
  14. Nebuchadnezzar II
    (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)
  15. Babylonia
    an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia
  16. Assyria
    an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
  17. code
    a set of rules or principles or laws
  18. cuneiform
    an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia
  19. Hammurabi
    Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)
  20. alphabet
    a set of characters that are used to write a language
  21. monotheism
    belief in a single God
  22. famine
    a severe shortage of food resulting in starvation and death
  23. exile
    the act of expelling a person from their native land
  24. Moses
    (Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus; Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai
  25. Phoenicia
    an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean
  26. Canaan
    an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
  27. Jerusalem
    capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel
  28. Israel
    an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC
  29. Judah
    (Old Testament) the fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; one of his descendants was to be the Messiah
  30. covenant
    an agreement between a god and the people
  31. prophet
    someone who speaks by divine inspiration
  32. diaspora
    the dispersion of something that was originally localized
  33. Abraham
    the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son
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